Residential Building Splits in Half, Gas Leaks, Stairs Crumble: China’s Tofu-Dreg Projects Astound
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- On the afternoon of April 27th, it was reported online that a residential building in the Kang'an Community, of Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, showed signs of wall cracking.
A video shot by a netizen shows that at first the crack was only about 10 centimeters long, but soon it enlarged to about one meter. As the gap grew larger, the building almost split in half, with one side leaning. This scene shocked everyone present.
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"Made in China" is not a mark of pride, it is a warning.
It’s so crazy that a less than 2 centuries ago, made in China was a sign of opulence and wealth. If you were English and wanted to buy a beautiful silk clothing u would want one made in China. If you wanted a new clock it’s the same thing, if you were avg citizen you would buy one made in England. You would have to be poor to buy one made in Swiss
Always has been
another Temu Tower split in to?!!! 😮
@@HailAzathoth Was going to say exactly that!
Don't knock it. You guys are eating, wearing and wiping with toxic Chinese products
In China a 14 year old apartment building is considered 'old' for good reason.
If it lasted 14 years that is
Many buildings in the USA r over 80 years old & approaching 100 years or more.🎉🎉
Very bad only 14yrs old
@@alapaticornell4391 Yeah same in my country, my house is 89 years and still standing strong😁
A flooded basement in China is just an opportunity to farm fish.
Indoor swimmig pool.
The town's septic tank...
Very funny🎉🎉
😂😂😂😂
@@powershift2024 Adds more flavor to the fishes
Imagine being able to buy a house in a high rise building in China after working to death, only to find yourself homeless.
They say Taiwan has lots of old buildings, is not modern. Yeah Yeah Yeah.....BC. we don't have to rebuild and rebuild every 15 minutes.
It’s scary to visit China nowadays.From fake food to sub standards living conditions.I wonder if it’s safe to stay in any hotels now?!
Add toxic air and crazy people
The Roman Empire built bridges over 2000 years ago which are still standing and in use today.
Lol. I can't believe you think you are making a point. It's mostly sad. And a little bit funny. You basically are just showcasing how little you know about the world in general, and about construction specifically.
@@chillmegachillYou ought to have a look at this and the data therein before opening your mouth again.
@@davidholder3207
Before you build a bridge you have to make sure the soil under it can bear the weight, the soil has to be very compact and stable. They had ways of doing this similar to a proctor test and a sand cone testThe ancient Romans being the best civil engineers that history would see for centuries learned it the hard way. This is before science so it was just an ongoing record of learning from past mistakes with knowledge handed down to the next generation. They only built with the best plans, with the best material available. Earthquakes are a big problem in Italy so you have to "over build" often. That means make something much stronger than necessary every step of the way so that when it's finished it's going to stick around.
They also made sure to pick the best spot for their bridges and would sometimes dig and dig and dig to make sure that if there is bed rock, they'll hit it.
Also, you have to remember that after thousands of years all of the ones who couldn't survive the test of time fell apart. What you're seeing is the ones who could and did.
What you are seeing in your driveway is the cheapest cement on discount at Home depot, poured by the cheapest guys a crooked sub contractor tricked into working in terrible conditions regardless of the untested soil.
@@chillmegachill I sincerely hope you have an opportunity to recover your soul from the CCP. Life is pretty good out here! Good Luck!
Perhaps you should learn about Chinese structures from that period that are still standing.
The African countries need to take serious notice of all the tofu construction in China. Africa will be getting the same thing!!
China is sponsoring construction projects all over the world. Most feature Chinese construction firms... 😬
I literally just thinking the same thing about China's so-called philanthropic ventures in Africa
Yeah, thanks to China's lovely "Belt and Road Initiative" I believe it's called. 😀
@@AmenimunNothing philanthropic about it. They are undeveloped Africa as an opportunity to get more power and control against the Western world.
@@Sebastianmaz615belt and gravel
I lived in harbin and I am an Aussie. My Chinese wife and I purchased a new home up there from sunac off the plan. During construction we visited many times and saw some pretty crazy things.
With regards to its ground base, the level it put a concrete pad down and say all good. What they don’t say is that around the edges of the pad they don’t give it any support and the ground it’s built on is on top of the rubbish bought in from other construction sites. Then the pad is more sand than concrete and sinking is common.
The big issues is the pad. They don’t do it correctly. Our underground car park was supposed to be ventilated, it wasn’t, it had backup diesel generators again without proper ventilation, it leaked water, a lot of water so much that it formed a sort of cave under a building 5 down from us, the temperature in the car park was o the minus and it hilariously set off EV cars batteries and so much more.
Point is it’s money for them. They don’t care about anything they make there. It’s taught to them from school to scam. My wife’s mother was into pyramid schemes. She led many of them. She is also a party member so anyone who complained well bye bye.
Terrifying! what a society.
Boy, it would suck to live in China.
Not for long. If the air or the water don't get you, the food surely will.
You wouldn't be living, you'd just be surviving.
Made in China...
The worst part is we buy from them
I have not brought anything made in China since covid. Bangladesh products are of superior quality
Tofu Dreg Residential Building😂😂😂😂
@@ifeelbetterabouthis.louis3
Unless its a Western brand.
I like the way you put that - "CCP, solving problems by solving the people"
Stalin once said ''People cause problems, no person, no problem.''
I lived in a 4 story brownstone that was 200 years old, it’s still standing today.
Bet it was demolished without letting residents get any property out of the units, too.....
shortcuts that the CCP takes, "oh china can build WAY faster than the rest of the world can build." yea china can build 10 bridges in 1 year, while the US can only build 3 in 1 year. but the difference is that American bridges last for decades, while chinese bridges only last for less than a year.
Some bridges in the US and Europe have lasted hundreds of years lol
Before the red infection, the Chinese built bridges that lasted for over a millennium. This is no longer the case obviously.
It's not the CCP directly. It's the contractors. For sure, it's ccp responsibility though
They last a while, you just kinda need to build a ramp to get down to the part that detached and is floating on the water.
What the heck does a private company have to do with CCP?
Are you blaming USA for each separe incident with Boing airplanes?
One of the major reasons why this happens in China is because they have institutions that follow Rule by Law that favors the rich, and the powerful at the expense of following Rule of Law that favors no one. Corruption is not exclusively a Chinese phenomenon, and Western countries are not immune to these types of instances, but these type of instances can be severely mitigated with good institutions like a fair justice system, a free and open press, and checks and balances in governance.
I would not hire anyone who has ever worked in China in any industry. Extreme integrity issues.
Without Chinese industry your life would be very different.
@@byteme9718 thats why they are projecting so hard! :)
And iphone
This is stunning to me. I live in an area that experiences 4 seasons. My house is well over 100 years old. The idea that these places are crumbling after 20 years is crazy. EDIT: So buyers in China don't get independent inspections before completing real estate purchases? I don't understand how people buy buildings and THEN discover the walls are foam OR the plumbing is incomplete OR electrical doesn't work etc...
20 years is on the extreme high end these days. Building like that built now would be lucky to last 5 years.
@@TheSolidSnakeOil 😬😬😬
*Once your funds is transferred to the builder, you now are the slave to the banks. You are on your own if the building is tofu dreg. The banks pay the thugs ( local police) to stop any protest. The CCP couldn't give a Rats ass about their people! The Chinese people are screwed!*
STUNNING TO YOU ??? YOU MUST LIVE UNDER A ROCK !!....THIS IS CHINA...CLICK YOUR HEELS THREE TIMES AND SAY TO YOURSELF...." THERES NO PLACE LIKE HOME "....that might help ya !!
@@Tyneras yea lol
This is a good video China Observer, the narrator does a good job as well, thank you for your hard work!
This is a good example of the problem with dictatorships. The dictatorship controls all things, the firms constructing the buildings and the inspectors who are to ensure the job is completed properly and with minimal environmental damage. The dictatorship cuts corners to make themselves look more competent.
Worldwide issue and everyone has to break the rules to get the jobs finished on time get fined,go insane,loose family life, suicide!
Greedy world, it's never enough! Very cruel..It need not be this way ❤️
New buildings in China unfinished buildings. China unfinished EV cars.
and don't forget an abandon billion project in Johor Bahru, Malaysia
This is happening all over China… Building, Roads, Bridges And dams… Millions of people have lost their homes due to the poorly built building…
I keep wondering about the 3G dam.
These country is supposed to take over the world? Imagine how much it's going to cost them to fix buildings for millions of people, and in addition to that the cost of all the infrastructure!
We have homes in the UK still perfectly being used that were built over 450 years ago. Indeed many of these are worth a small fortune. Most of our suburban homes were built over 85 years ago and are as sound today as the day they were built. This sort of thing simply does not happen in the UK to my knowledge or if it does it is extremely rare. This chap is perfectly correct China will need to rebuild everything every 40-50 years if not much sooner in many cases. This is perhaps better than the CCP employing half of its workforce digging holes and the other half filling them in again, but not a lot better. One is seriously left to wonder if the CCP has done anything right at all? Surely no country or its government could be this incompetently corrupt by mistake? I beginning to believe that this has been done as a deliberate act of sadistic cruelty. Perhaps the CCP's top brass have a collective circle jerk over movies of these buildings falling down while fully occupied?
The only buildings that remained standing after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake were constructed in the 19th century using steel girders from Lancashire, UK. 🏭
@@0Zebadee0 Yep, just another example of the devolution of man. Don't forget we also have cars still running produced over 100 years ago. Using sewage systems and roads built by the Romans, Castles and Churches built by the Saxons, bridges and livery halls built by the early Georgians, hospitals, and hydro-electrical plants built by the Victorians. Yet many of the tower blocks built by corrupt Labour councils back in the 50s-60s have already been demolished, sometimes because of structural failures but mainly because no one could stand living in them. Socialism and everything becoming a disposable product seem to go hand in glove. Could it be that socialism was actually invented by capitalists to help make them even richer and keep the rest as poor as possible? To create an economy where no one owns anything because nothing is worth owning?
You can bet your life on the fact.
The UK tore down most of the really poorly built housing almost a century ago during the slum clearings.
@@joseph1150 No we did not. Those houses were perfectly sound buildings. Some that survived Labour's post-WW wreaking ball are now worth well over £1.5 million and constitute some of London's most desired properties. We did not know how to make crap buildings when these were constructed. The brickwork and woodwork were of better quality in the 18th century than builders produce today.
@@garypowell1540 I'm not talking about the idiotic labour era destruction of sound buildings to meet plans the government set, I'm talking about the prewar clearings where ran down terrace housing and slums were removed and replaced.
Ah good ol made in china...
Where did they get the brilliant idea of substituting oatmeal in place of cement?
I hope America doesn't end up like China in terms of construction projects. How did those particular Chinese construction companies become so dishonest?
If the contractors are making such big profits from shoddy construction, why are so many of them going broke?
It is because the money winds up in the pockets of corrupt contractors and officials.
@@squiremc Must mean the profits are as imaginary as most everything else in China....
It looks like it's made of dirt
No concrete was used in the manufacture of this building - be sure of that. No steel reinforcing either.
@@davidshanahan5134 definitely looks like you are correct
Probably is knowing how they use extremely poor materials to pocket the extra money.
@TheSolidSnakeOil the worst part is we in the US buy a large share of their stuff
You're not far off. In some cases they have been mixing dirt into the cement instead of crushed limestone.
Nothing quite like Chinese “quality”. Good grief.
Absolute ridiculous and appalling. Why people do this to their own community, so much greed and deceit that it disgust me. Then they want to lead the world in everything? especially the silk road? oh hell no! Im not taking a bite!
This is insane. I don't need to point out that two thousand years ago the ancient Greeks had treatise on how to properly site and build large structures, because China has treatise going back a thousand years on how to site and build large structures, and there are many that still exist to this day! This is a huge step back for China.
Its the corrupt ideas, if someone on top can skip a few steps, why can't I, it compounds quite fast. Instead of having pride in building something, its about maximizing profits, loss of trust.
This is why Chinese keep buying Australian real-estate, & up until now our stupid politicians have made it way to easy for them.
However, new regulations are too little, too late, & currently not only owning your home is out of reach for many Australians, but so is finding somewhere affordable to rent is impossible as well!
The high rise quality is not much better than the Chinese ,there are several blocks of units in all states condemned, NSW is probably the worst , it has just been a money laundering exercise ,and put home ownership out of reach for the people
Please tell others the secret how you where able to run out of space in that big land… because we would just build more houses on the enormous free land that’s available and call it day
@@kgfgfg1 No such thing as 'free-land' in Australia!
@@stevie-ray2020 I can see a huge amount off to be developed land in Clyde.
Tofu buildings are every where in China, 90% building wont last over 30 years...but mortgage is around 30 years, after 50 years, all property go back to the town, owners lose everythings...so who will buy property???
Its a damn shame the people can't trust their homes will be standing the next day. They have so many excuses for such poor construction. The builders need to be held liable for such crappy construction.
The builders are either government companies or face men for government officials.
You have way too narrow a view of the situation.
A split level house, except for being level.
No, it's been leveled. To the ground.
And the government will try to stop all reporting as this reflects badly on those officials who let this sub standard tofu building be built.
In China it’s all about appearances and not about quality.
"The gas leak may have been caused by the cracking of the wall." Ya think? And some people actually want to buy chinese-made cars. Good luck with that, fools.
China scares me because of many failures, especially failures related to buildings.
Why are you scared? Do you live there? Are you afraid of velociraptors as well?
Exactly why China is my on my list of never ever country to visit second only to India.
All of their failure involve life and death situation, but perhaps they don't care since they have too much population in the country.
@@jdsheleg8332 I don't live in China because I live in Colombia. Despite the earlier thing mentioned, I'm still scared anyway.
Madness, all those buildings will never last for 70 years !
If you think tofu buildings got worse over the years what is going to happen to those houses built in the naughties and tens?
Like everything they build, it’s only critical to look impressive at a photo op or in a show room, but only made to last just long enough to collect and escape any liability.
Unbelievable criminality
But I want money I don’t care if the project collapses in two years give me money
4:54, I'm surprised anything is still standing over there.
I am not surprised. Imagine, this a failed building structure, what more when it comes to food, human behavior, vehicles, etc. These people just wants to gain money, so inhumane.
I Once lived in a 100 years old germany built house!
The wall was thick and dense
I feel like it can even tank 30mm cannon
And the crazy part is that the owner said it was just barely enough to withstand some puny storms
"The dishonesty in China is so entrenched, that it is practically a way of life, in the face of man made disasters caused by corruption and malfeasance the Chinese Communist Party usually sweeps things under the rug, then they deal with the subsequent impacts thru falsification and blame shifting. This kind of routine has been used by the CCCP to the point that ordinary people expect it." I think you can swap China for any of many countries and CCCP with the local political process and it still holds true.
Didn't any of these buyers inspect the home before putting down money?
They buy these structures before they are built, the seller just walks away.
You are required to pay in full before the first hole is dug. Unless you can inspect the scale models.
So, is flammable white foam a substandard building material?
You bet it is substandard. Remember the Grenfell cladding disaster in London. Fire spread rapidly all over the outside of the building due to similar material use.
These builders are pure criminals.
Attention, this building will self-destruct in seven years 😅
A very common type of building found all over the country.
I sure wouldn’t get into any tall Chinese building…..😳
Temple over 1000 years old. Chinese buildings 15 to 25 years old. Chinese new EV cars 3 mo to 3 years
"20yrs" less than half their intended lifespan .wtf
Like I commented on a another China Observer video -- China is like a house of cards.
I lived in a new building in Shanghai that did that.
That must have been terrifying.
I guess the older buildings might be a bit safer, assuming that corruption wasn't as rampant before the 2000s. But if this building practices go on 50y instead of 20y then modern China is about to collapse, literally not only economically.
Scary...
Edit: I live in Switzerland. They built a supermarket 5y ago. The automatic stairs fail on about every 3rd day. This you would not have seen back in the 90s. Back then those stairs were either still Swiss made or by the EU. Early Chinese products probably were of expected quality. But as I can see several times a week, the world has become so interconnected that bad Chinese quality even affects the quality of life of people in Switzerland.
Even if taking the normal stairs would be healthier anyway, it is still annoying if things don't work as expected. My heart bleeds for the poor guy who has to maintain those stairs. He must hate his job.
Oh you didn’t want the apartments split apart bad translation 😂
I am happy that I don't live in China.....too much of a hassle being there
The top people at those construction companies are just evil and have no conscience. Surely, they must realize they're risking the lives of future residents which would include men, women, and children. Those evil people are allowed to get away with such crappy construction.
So, Chinese construction companies don't know there is weather in China.
It was sad to see the thing about soldiers dying from marching over a bridge. This very issue has been understood, I don't know going back MANY years maybe even hundreds or not too much long after different types of bridges were built, ones where resonance can cause them to start moving, which becomes worse until the bridge falls apart. I was in the military, we didn't march over bridges. Now, I didn't march through my career, mostly in bootcamp. That was 45 years ago.
Can't the Chinese learn from history, record event, turn those into lessons learned and then into common practices? I mean that's how militaries around the world operate. This is such a basic thing, don't march over bridges. Will it happen again? Is the only thing the Chinese culture which has been ruined by the notion that stealing and copying is the way to success, is that what they're now limited to? Why go to college?
They used the wrong kind of sand in their concrete. It was cheaper!
I don't believe it's appropriate to equate "Chinese" with "CCP."
This becomes evident when considering "Ally From China," who was born and educated in China and now shares unbiased opinions in English.
The CCP's argument emphasizes party stability and global ethnic supremacy.
In other words, contrary to its principles and claims, there is no fundamental value placed on the well-being of the people.
As a result, the general public ridicules them and refers to them as "leeks."
I don't believe that all Chinese people are negative, but I think the reason problems like the current one often arise is due to the leaders and the system.
The newer ones are of lower quality. How long will they last?
China holds the record of being able to collaspe a structure faster than it can build one .
I love this channel ❤
Anyone else get the feeling that china no longer knows how to actually build a building?
What a crazy country.
It sounds like China doesn’t know how to build luxury apartments with extra common areas. It’s better to over engineer in case of change orders. You think???
can somone plese tell me the name of the song that plays in the backround when the guy is talking? 10:12
This is typical Chinesium quality, why would anyone buy an apartment there? It’s madness, a 15 year old building is considered old, and with good reason. 🤦♂️
I live in a renovatd house that was built in 1891...and it will certainly be standing for the next 100 years...the Chinese construction companies must be aware of these flaws...and yet they have decided to hand over these houses...if this happened in my country, such a company would never be allowed to build a single house again...perhaps those responsiblewould even be punished and locked up in prison...the 'workers' and farmers' paradise' in China turn out to be hell on closer inspection. And i bet that those responsiblewill somehow get out of the affair and the people will be left alone with this catastrophe.
Greed flows in that country
3 millón = foam …..
Welp, if you need a foam roller after working out, just dig in your walls and you’ll have an unlimited supply.
That’s a damn shame !! How do you sleep at night knowing that you installed foam into the walls that can ignite SMFH
Have old buildings in Hong Kong ever shown this type of structural damage or were they built to more international standards?
It is so hard to teardown apartments even lost cost flats all around the world. You either dynamite it carefully or hire deconstruction companies which is expensive. So for buildings like this to just fall apart from tofu dreg is just truly impressive LOL.
What, you don't appreciate the builders creating the leaning tower of China ? Imagine the tourism.
At 2:38 they said a 'a special working group had been formed that 1300 Yen in housing funds were allocated to each household'. Doesn't the Chinese government use currency called the Renminbi (RMB) of which the primary unit is a Chinese Yuan (CNY) or CNH in offshore markets. There are about 7.25 Yuan per dollar. A Yen is Japanese currency and worth about 150 per dollar. If they meant Yuan that's less than $180, and if Yen only about $8.70. It's been a long time since I lived in that part of the country, but I think somebody needs to do their homework.
She did say yuan (sounds like yuen, but certainly not yen).
This, from the country that built the Great Wall. What a shame.
Immediate growth versus refineness, selling a cheap poorly constructed building just would award more contracts... but who would buy them.
Yep, just another example of the devolution of man. Don't forget we also have cars still running produced over 100 years ago. Using sewage systems and roads built by the Romans, Castles and Churches built by the Saxons, bridges and livery halls built by the early Georgians, hospitals, and hydro-electrical plants built by the Victorians. Yet many of the tower blocks built by corrupt Labour councils back in the 50s-60s have already been demolished, sometimes because of structural failures but mainly because no one could stand living in them. Socialism and everything becoming a disposable product seem to go hand in glove. Could it be that socialism was actually invented by capitalists to help make them even richer and keep the rest as poor as possible? To create an economy where no one owns anything because nothing is worth owning?
You can bet your life on the fact.
Saddest thing about this video was at the end when the narrator said that the CCP is more concerned about shutting down the person or people who bring up the reasons why infrastructure is collapsing. 😀
Does no one remember the earthquake in Chengdu? How could these people be so foolish as to build a building that will fall down on it's own in time in an area that may experience a major quake again one day? Are they TRYING to end as many lives as possible?
Pro tip: don't buy apartments on Temu.🤔
This shocked everyone. How? They re Chinese and live and know how Chinese people work and the quality of Chinese materials.
Not a blind observer: A building cracks after a tenant demolished most of the load-bearing walls on the third floor to build a gym. More than 240 families living in a 31-story building in China’s northeastern city of Harbin were evacuated Sunday 😊
Oh why didn’t you say you wanted quality construction?? My bad, my mistake. 😂😂😂😂
A strong bridge wall will not collapse just because of strong winds
1:20 How can 20 years be half the lifespan of a building?!?
There are many thousands of apartment buildings that have been around 50+ years.
Do the Chinese have built in obsolescence?
Looks like some learning curve taking place. No building codes?
Codes are just suggestions in China.
The weather cannot speak to defend itself so if there is any disaster that happened, the quickest way is to blame the weather.
Now consider that most retail investments are in the real estate market. This money is quite literally going up in smoke here. Destroying value like this will have a profound effect on the Chinese economy for decades.
This is disasterous!
Man they sure dont make them like they used to in the tinanmen square. Especially in '89.
This Kind Of Materials... Even जुगाड़ Cannot save them
The Chinese motto of "Cheat if you can" ruins the quality of everything from China.
Wallcracking? Uh oh…
Its a huge worry for people
How about fining or making the responsible company rebuild it properly?
it begins
That shot of marching boots and helmets? Didn't that come from mythbusters?